Woke up this morning, turned on the lights in my 15 gallon tank, to find my pair of dwarf gourami at opposite ends of the tank (as usual), but neither approached the front of the glass when the lights went on... highly suspicious.
I went looking for them (quite a feat in that tank, a TON of hiding places)....
I found Bella first. My female dwarf gourami has a small cut, vertical on her body, on the right side, about 1/3 the total height of her body long. It looked as thought it had bled at some point but had healed up over the few hours before I turned on the lights. It doesn't look to be serious... just a minor surface thing.
Boris was more difficult to find. Once I found him, I coaxed him to the front of the tank so I could examine him. His left side, below his mouth, about where his stomach is(?) had a small cut (about 1/3 the size of Bella's cut) but it had a scab on it. Only about the size of a pin head, but a scab for sure. Still didn't look very serious though.
Neither has been behaving any differently after I'd coaxed them out and checked them out. Both have been happily swimming around and as inquisitive as always.
I added melafix and pimafix to the tank the second I noticed it, as well as a cap ful of my water conditioner as it's supposed to help with restoring slimecoat. The tank was completely cleaned (as in... 90% water change on Sunday as it was moved to a new location), so I'm not too worried about it getting infected. The only thing I've done differently with the tank besides the move was adding blanched zuchinni and cucumber slices every couple days (removing after six hours) for my otocinclus to eat (as they've cleaned me right out of algae and they refuse to eat algae tabs). I know the gourami have been tucking into the zuchinni and cucumber (or at least Boris has, but I'm certain Bella has gotten her fair share too).
Is there anything I can do for them besides Melafix/Pimafix and water conditioner? Is there something better that I should be using as opposed to water conditioner, Melafix and Pimafix?
I went looking for them (quite a feat in that tank, a TON of hiding places)....
I found Bella first. My female dwarf gourami has a small cut, vertical on her body, on the right side, about 1/3 the total height of her body long. It looked as thought it had bled at some point but had healed up over the few hours before I turned on the lights. It doesn't look to be serious... just a minor surface thing.
Boris was more difficult to find. Once I found him, I coaxed him to the front of the tank so I could examine him. His left side, below his mouth, about where his stomach is(?) had a small cut (about 1/3 the size of Bella's cut) but it had a scab on it. Only about the size of a pin head, but a scab for sure. Still didn't look very serious though.
Neither has been behaving any differently after I'd coaxed them out and checked them out. Both have been happily swimming around and as inquisitive as always.
I added melafix and pimafix to the tank the second I noticed it, as well as a cap ful of my water conditioner as it's supposed to help with restoring slimecoat. The tank was completely cleaned (as in... 90% water change on Sunday as it was moved to a new location), so I'm not too worried about it getting infected. The only thing I've done differently with the tank besides the move was adding blanched zuchinni and cucumber slices every couple days (removing after six hours) for my otocinclus to eat (as they've cleaned me right out of algae and they refuse to eat algae tabs). I know the gourami have been tucking into the zuchinni and cucumber (or at least Boris has, but I'm certain Bella has gotten her fair share too).
Is there anything I can do for them besides Melafix/Pimafix and water conditioner? Is there something better that I should be using as opposed to water conditioner, Melafix and Pimafix?
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